Had a brilliant flight back from Madrid today on an Iberia A340 - just about to land into Heathrow, seconds from touchdown and had the engines roar back up to full throttle for an aborted landing. Had a plane quite close to us at the same time coming in at 3 o'clock. Was a brilliant experience. Took a sped-up video of the whole thing expecting just a normal landing!

Monarch Airlines has ceased trading and its 300,000 future bookings for flights and holidays have been cancelled, the Civil Aviation Authority has said.

About 110,000 customers are currently overseas and the government has asked the CAA to charter more than 30 aircraft to bring them back to the UK.

Bit late to ask this, but does anyone know who is operating the "surface" transfers back to Manchester Airport (or Leeds-Bradford for that matter)? Looking at the CAA's website there are at least 10 flights to Birmingham and three to Gatwick carrying passengers who flew out from Manchester. Two other flights are advising that MAN bound passengers will be contacted individually.